Sentences with phrase «for youth shelter»

In April, Governor Andrew Cuomo amended the age for youth shelter beds to 25 on a state level, but Siciliano said the same must be done by the city.

The controversial pop star wants the state to put funding for youth shelter beds in this year's budget.

The Campaign for Youth Shelter, a coalition effort by a number of advocacy groups, are pressing the state and city to grow the supply of emergency beds each year by 100 until waiting lists at shelters around the city disappear.

Not exact matches

Covenant House is committed to providing a place of shelter and support for every at - risk youth who passes through our doors.

Youth want to be engaged in a Church that is happening here and now — mission trips, Habitat for Humanity, homeless shelters.

Yes, if we're really worried about «those gays», maybe we should start volunteering some time to deliver meals to AIDS patients, work in a shelter for LGBT youth or that sort of thing and show «those people» a healthy dose of the love of Jesus coming their way.

Or we could support an existing one, endow scholarships, build a youth center in town or a better shelter for the homeless.

He is a director of health services at Covenant House Pennsylvania, a shelter for homeless and marginalized youth.

ECPC provides parenting education groups and counseling to the residents and training for staff at homeless and domestic violence shelters to counteract serious risk factors including homelessness, poverty, youth or emancipation from the child welfare system.

Whether it's supporting a shelter for homeless and runaway youth, a mentoring program for girls, or helping families put fresher, healthier food on the table, these awards seek to support programs that can help change lives.

«One of the most gruesome things we hear at the Ali Forney Center is our young people who have been recently diagnosed in their desperation to get shelter and housing will forsake taking the medication because they want to be eligible for the current HASA guidelines,» said Carl Siciliano, executive director of the group, which helps homeless LGBT youth.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER With the May 8 release of his final executive budget proposal for fiscal year 2015, Mayor Bill de Blasio is making good on his commitment from last year's campaign to step up city support for homeless youth shelter space by 100 beds each year.

Carl Siciliano, the founder and executive director of the Ali Forney Center, lauded the de Blasio administration for adding 100 new emergency beds in youth shelters over the past year, which he sees as a down payment on a commitment to grow the stock of available spots until the unmet need is addressed.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER By unanimous votes on March 7, the City Council approved three measures aimed at strengthening shelter options for homeless youth in New York, including a long contested move to raise the age limit for eligibility in youth shelters to include those 21 to 24 years old.

A group of mainline conference Democrats and members of the Independent Democratic Conference in the state Senate signed on to an effort led by Sen. Brad Hoylman to include more funding in the state budget for homeless runaway youth shelters.

Also at 1 p.m., Sen. Brad Hoylman, the Empire State Pride Agenda and the Coalition for Homeless Youth will be joined by elected officials and advocates to call for increased funding in the state budget for homeless youth shelters, City Hall steps, ManhaYouth will be joined by elected officials and advocates to call for increased funding in the state budget for homeless youth shelters, City Hall steps, Manhayouth shelters, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

PLAYSTREETS also extends to selected New York City homeless shelters, providing homeless youth with much - needed play time and opportunities for organized physical activity.

During Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, she served on the New York City Commission on LGBTQ Runaway and Homeless Youth, which made recommendations for providing more safe shelter spaces.

Cuomo's proposal will «add a new provision to authorize OTDA to designate a «Temporary Operator» for homeless shelters and OCFS as it relates to residential programs for victims of domestic violence and runaway and homeless youth programs where the current operator has been found to have significant financial, operational, or health and safety issues,» the proposal says.

«I'm incredibly grateful to Miley Cyrus for her support of our campaign to restore funding for homeless youth shelters in our state budget,» Hoylman said in a statement.

We must act now to bring these kids in from the cold by increasing funding for homeless youth shelters.»

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Hawkins said he would restore the funding to the AIDs Institute that Cuomo cut as well as restoring funding for homeless youth shelters.

Hawkins has previously called for fully restoring funding that Cuomo had cut from the AIDS Institute and homeless youth shelters.

The de Blasio administration can make a quick down payment on its homeless youth commitment by working to settle a federal lawsuit just filed by the Legal Aid Society aimed at guaranteeing a youth shelter bed for any homeless youth in need.

After a stint in the Marines, Radford, 45, became an activist and organizer on a number of fronts, including president of the student government at Erie Community College, a trainer with the Martin Luther King Institute for Nonviolence, and head of a youth detention center for at - risk kids and a homeless shelter for young women.

«It absolutely sickens me,» said Brooklyn Councilman Lew Fidler who chairs the Council's Youth Services Committee, noting that the cuts will slash almost one in six shelter beds for runaway yYouth Services Committee, noting that the cuts will slash almost one in six shelter beds for runaway youthyouth.

Nelson is instead exploring the possibility of turning the center into a homeless shelter for youth.

Governor Cuomo's first state budget in 2011 cut state aid for homeless youth shelters, including those that serve LGBT youth, who account for about 40 % of all homeless youth in New York City.

A City Hall spokesperson said the de Blasio administration had made «an unprecedented investment to enhance services for runway and youth homelessness,» which included funding 500 additional youth beds in shelter.

For the 20 years that I have been working with homeless youth in NYC, it has always been accepted as a given by city government that many homeless youth must sleep on the streets because of an inadequate youth shelter supply to meet the need.

In what was a campaign appearance, the speaker also vowed to fund shelter beds for homeless youth currently on waiting listings at the handful of facilities that provide appropriate space.

Chief among those proposals were establishment of a Mayor's Office of HIV / AIDS Policy, funding of shelter beds for homeless youth to eliminate the current waiting list that averages 350 per night at such facilities, and capital spending for senior housing that would serve the needs of LGBT New Yorkers.

As Fiona tries to raise the profile of the neighborhood, Ian helps Trevor to raise money for a new youth shelter.

Shameless, Season 8, Episode 5: In an effort to help Trevor raise money for a new youth shelter Ian pays a visit Quinton Fleet.

Borrowing the form of the Maysles» Gim me Shelter that documented the Rolling Stones» tragic Altamont concert, Altamont Now presents a unique reversioning of 1960s rock - sploitation films, Black Panther - style revolutionary rhetoric, and cinema verité to portray and eerily emblematic group of youth who have nothing worth rebelling for.

Basically, the script just wings it in the hope of some ribald and raunchy humor within the sheltered existence of a school for youth.

He claims that the «youth and inexperience» of the college students operating the shelter often combine to create a teacher - student dynamic that empowers guests in a way older professional social service workers can not, ultimately making a persuasive case for the replication of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter's student - run model in other major cities across the United shelter often combine to create a teacher - student dynamic that empowers guests in a way older professional social service workers can not, ultimately making a persuasive case for the replication of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter's student - run model in other major cities across the United Shelter's student - run model in other major cities across the United States.

Barbara Duffield, policy director for the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, said that while many school districts across the country are collaborating with shelters to arrange housing and services for homeless students, Maplewood Richmond Heights has gone one step further and committed resources to provide housing.

School district of current location means the public school district within the State of New York in which the hotel, motel, shelter or other temporary housing arrangement of a homeless child, or the residential program for runaway and homeless youth, is located, which is different from the school district of origin.

Seema is a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory and serves on boards for the Minnesota chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education and Avenues for Homeless Youth, a shelter in Minneapolis.

a supervised, publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations including, but not limited to, shelters operated or approved by the State or local department of social services, and residential programs for runaway and homeless youth established pursuant to article 19 - H of the Executive Law; or

She is a member of multiple Boards of Directors, including Child Advocates of Fort Bend (where she also serves as chairperson of the Ambassador Council) and Parks Youth Ranch (a shelter for homeless and at - risk yoYouth Ranch (a shelter for homeless and at - risk youthyouth).

Fleurette has a zest for life, an artistic flair, and a courage of her own; if at times she seems self - absorbed, that is understandable given her youth and her sheltered life.

He is a model citizen here at our shelter and we thought with his cuteness and his youth that he would fly right out of here, but he has been here for about three months — a long time for a young dog.

Desire to make a positive difference in the education of youth to increase their understanding, appreciation and respect for shelter dogs and cats and for each other as individuals.

Hand2Paw designs programs for social service agencies that bring youth to volunteer at Philadelphia area animal shelters.

«Shelter Me: Partners for Life» is hosted by Jon Hamm and features singer - songwriter Emmylou Harris and the incredible work she's doing to help at - risk youth and homeless pets in her community.

I don't believe that that is true for any of the world's problems that we face and I can prove that is not true for shelter animals or homeless youth.

Thus far, The Hand2Paw Foundation has helped social service agencies and animal shelters develop programming for hundreds of homeless and disconnected youth in Philadelphia.